Fun with pigeons

The Pigeon Dance

Doesn’t it look like the pigeons on this book cover are doing a line dance? There should be a line dance called The Pigeon. Here’s how the lyrics to the Pigeon Dance song would go: Every. Body. Do. The. Pigeon. Strut your head while you move forward. Flap your wings when someone gets too close. …

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Throwing paper airplane off train station

8 surprises from throwing a paper airplane off a train platform

What discoveries happen when you throw a paper airplane from an elevated CTA train platform? I had so many fun surprises that they couldn’t fit into one story! The one story ended up making little baby stories. Eight of ’em! So spread their surprisey goodness across the web, you can read them in eight different …

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What do you do when you explode a bag of chips in public?

(Above photo: The chips after they were picked up off the ground) Let’s say you are sitting in one of the world’s greatest public spaces on one of the area’s first warm days of the year. Everyone is sitting outside having a good time. Enjoying the good weather, enjoying the people walking by. You just …

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What if animals could use guns

I’m so glad that animals can’t use guns. A friend caught a poisonous scorpion in his garage. Just imagine if the scorpion could shoot out poison. It could just sit there and choose its targets to shoot. Are there animals that have the ability to shoot at their opponent? Sure some animals are in of …

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Evil pigeon wearing beret hat

Chinese scientists learn to control pigeons

Great. This is just great. Now we have remote-controlled live pigeons with implanted micro electrodes in their brains–by the Chinese! These pigeons are able to be controlled by the whims of crazy Chinese scientists. No word on if these are evil-crazy Chinese scientists, or good-crazy Chinese scientists. How about they make pigeons fly to another …

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Over 500 of my favorite things

Sites like friendster, myspace and livejournal have you list interests. But there’s never enough room for everything. Here’s my growing master list of things I like. After making this list, I realized that this is a helpful list that I can pray to God and thank Him for these things. 24 (tv) 57 degrees (the …

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bird poop tuesdays

Today, I was innocently standing at the train station when a stealth pigeon pooped all over my shoulder and arm. Last tuesday, I got bird poop on my back at McDonalds. It seems that Tuesdays are now my bird poop days, so I wrote a poem… Oh, the wretched day of tueTis my day of …

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geese or pigeons

Goose poop is bigger.Pigeon poop is nastier. Geese are mean jerks. Pigeons are brainless idiots.Geese flock in burbs.Pigeons flock in cities. Geese are least kinda pretty. Pigeons are rats with wings.It’s fun to watch geese, because they make silly sounds.It’s fun to watch pigeons, because they are stupid.